Narvik
by Box of Trickstheatre
A new play with songs by Lizzie Nunnery
about the production
" If I was to throw myself beneath that tide... If I was to let the water take me, 'til the cold felt like heat, like love..." Narvik tells the story of a Liverpudlian man and Norwegian woman pulled together and torn apart by war as the events of one summer cause ripples across an ocean of time. Award-winning playwright Lizzie Nunnery conjures a play where music and words meet, creating a patchwork of memory, dream, truth and fantasy. Inspired by tales of Naval veterans, Narvik brings to life a powerful story of love, guilt, heroism and betrayal.
about the artist
Box of Tricks is a Manchester-based theatre company that champions the next generation of playwrights, producing top quality new plays on local and national stages. We are a launchpad for new talent. We commission and develop bold and original new plays from the most exciting new voices, creating ambitious and heartfelt theatre that engages, challenges and entertains. We stage new plays in Manchester and the North West and tour new productions to audiences nationwide. We are the next generation. We are the new play makers. We are Box of Tricks.
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stage dimensions
width: 7 metres
height: 3 metres
depth: 7 metres
Piano
PA
fans of new writing
school groups
fans of folk music
“Lizzie Nunnery’s thrillingly enigmatic memory play... Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder’s production for Box of Tricks has a chilled, hallucinatory quality... It is the music – a skein of electronically filtered shanties and ballads performed by Nunnery and her regular collaborators Vidar Norheim and Martin Heslop – that is used to most atmospheric effect... A thrillingly theatrical encapsulation of a little-known theatre of war.”
“Nunnery’s words and Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder’s direction quickly draw you in. The cast create an atmospheric soundscape, and the plot zigzags like a ship trying to outrun a German U-boat, throwing up some unexpected moments... Compelling, at times almost poetic, storytelling... Narvik’s 80 minutes move swiftly by, and there’s a satisfying (Arctic) circle to Nunnery’s Norse saga.”
“A moving and powerful piece... Haunting and atmospheric.”
£750 per performance (negotiable for multiple dates)
